Bell is going back-to-back, corrals COTA victory after frantic late-race combat

Christopher Bell soared to his moment consecutive NASCAR Cup Collection victory, rising from a four-car combat within the remaining laps on the Circuit of The Americas.Bell led 8 of the 95 laps in Sunday’s EchoPark Automobile Grand Prix, along with his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota taking the checkered flag via a nil.433-second margin of victory. Bell’s first win on the Austin, Texas street path used to be the eleventh of his Cup Collection profession.RELATED: Unofficial race effects | At-track footage: COTA Daytona 500 winner William Byron completed moment within the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Polesitter Tyler Reddick positioned 3rd, with Chase Elliott fourth and Kyle Busch — who led a race-high 42 laps — finishing the highest 5 finishers.Rookie Connor Zilisch completed closing in his Cup Collection debut. The 18-year-old driving force — who received in Saturday’s Xfinity Collection tournament — endured after his No. 87 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet sustained injury in a Lap 1, Flip 1 jam-up that still accrued Denny Hamlin and Elliott. Elliott used to be the sufferer of a first-turn dive via Trackhouse driving force Ross Chastain, whose No. 1 Chevrolet clanked into Elliott’s No. 9 Chevy, forcing it to spin and drop to the again of the 37-car box.SHOP: Race winner gearLater on, Zilisch exited early after Trackhouse teammate Daniel Suárez spun within the fiftieth lap, accumulating Zilisch’s vehicle and sending it careening into the tire barrier at Flip 19. Suárez used to be scored thirty sixth and Zilisch thirty seventh within the ultimate rundown; each drivers had been evaluated and launched after a go back and forth to the infield care middle.The race used to be the Cup Collection’ 5th on the Lone Celebrity State circuit, however the first on a shorter 2.3-mile configuration — lowered from the full-course 3.41-mile format utilized in earlier occasions.MORE: Zilisch, Suárez sidelined at COTAThe Cup Collection’ subsequent race is the Shriners Kids’s 500, scheduled for subsequent Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Phoenix Raceway.This tale can be up to date.